^■ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I ■^ Uii 12.2 It: lAO ■ 2.0 1.25 ||.4 1.6 « 6" ► 73 .,%. >> ■ri m Photographic Sciences Corporation •SJ v c\ \ v 6^ 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. loSSC (716) 873-4S03 diffi«r una nago The copy filmed here has been reproduced thanks to the generosity of: Harriet Irvinfl Library University of New Bruntwidc The images appearing here are the best quality possible considering the condition and legibility of the original copy and in iceeping with the filming contract spr<:ifications. L'exemplaire film* fut reproduit grAce h la gAnArositA de: Harriet Irving Library University of New Brunswick Les images suivantes ont 6t6 reproduites avec ie plus grand soin. compte tenu de la condition at d« la nettetA de l'exemplaire film*, et en conformity avec les conditions du contrat de filmage. Original copies in printed paper covers are filmed beginning with the front covei and ending on the last page with a printed or illustrated impres- sion, or the back cover when appropriate. All other original copies are filmed beginning on the first page with a printed or illustrated impres- sion, and ending on the last page with a printed or illustrated impression. Les exemplaires originaux dont la couverture en papier est imprim6e sont fiimte en commenpant par Ie premier plat et en terminant soit par la dernlAre page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration, soit par Ie second plat, selon Ie cas. Tous les autres exemplaires originaux sont filmte en commenpant par la premiAre page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la dernlAre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. The last recorded frame on each microfiche shall contain the symbol ^^- (meaning "CON- TINUED"), or the symbol V (meaning "END"), whichever applies. Un des symboles suivants apparaftra sur la derniAre image de cheque microfiche, selon ie cas: Ie symbols — ► signifie "A SUIVRE", ie symbols V signifie "FIN". Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning In the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent Atre filmts A des taux de reduction diff Arents. Lorsque Ie document est trop grand pour Atre reproduit en un seul clichA, il est filmA A partir de Tangle supArieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant Ie nombre d'images nAcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. rrata o peiure, iA □ 32X 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 6v>-v <: . V ce^'-f^ c^-^' ,► ^ c> t> v'cll wc guess the song, the subtle words and buriiiiij. Sung to him the subtle king of burning words ;— " " Much-cnJuririj; wanderer, lioncy-tongnccl, conic ni^licr ; ''ViscHt Ruler, Haiie ol" I lion's lofty walla, Hear stranjrc wisiloni to thine uttermost desire, — Whatsoe'er in all the rruitful earth befalls." So wc rise up twain and make his bonds securer. Sect)ics the startled sea now from the surjj;ing blade ; Leaps tlio dark ship forth, a.s we, wiih hearts grown surer, Eyes averse, and war-worn faces made afraid, O'er the waste warm reaches drive our prow soa-elcavin',', Past the luring death, into the folding night : — Home shall hcUrus yet— and cease our wives frojii gr'eving- Safc frum storm, and toil, and (lame, and clangini; b^ht. Fti. 1881. LV FJW3I FIRE. Save what the night-wind woke of sweet And solemn sound, I heard alone The slecples;! ocean's ceaseioss beat. The surge's monotone. l^ow down the south a dreary gleam Of white light smote the sudden swcllsj Evasive as a blissful dream, Or wird-borne notes of bcllg. The waters lapping whispers stole Into my brain, and there eft'aced All human memories I'rom my soul — An atom in a shifting waste. Wierd lingers groping strove to raise Some numbing horror frora my mind, And ever, as it met ray gaze. The sharp truth struck me blind. The keen-edged breath of the salt sea Stung ; but a faint swift sulphurous smeU IJlew past, and I reeled dizzily As from the brink ol hell. One moment; but the swan necked prow Sustained me, and once more I scanned The unfcnccd flood, against my brow Arching my lifted hand. O'er all the unstable vague expanse 1 towered tlu' lord suprenu?, and smiled ; And marked the hard white sparkles glance, The dark vault wide and wild. t TV^'nin flint laiiit v.ind swoj t my Inco — W'itli hideous tnotifico sw(>|it my oyos : 1 cuwuioJ li.'ick it) my stniitiMicil [il.icc Anil groped with dim sjurmisc, Not knov/injj; yet. Not knowing; why, I turned, as one asleep might turn. And noted with half-curious eye The figure crouched astern. On heaped up leopard-skins she crouched Asleep, and soi't :*kins covered her. And scarlet stuiFs where she was couclied, Sodden with bilge-water, liurned lurid with black stains, and smote My thought with waking pangs ; I saw The white arm drooping from the boat, Kound-mouldod, without Haw ; The yellow sandals even-thonged ; The fair face wan with haunting pain : Then sudden crowding memories thronged, Jiikc unjiont sudden rain. Clear stamped, as by white lightning when The swift flame rends the night, wide-eyed I saw dense streets, and flying men, And walls from side to side Reeling, and great rocks fallen., a pall Above us, an encumbering shroud About our I'eet, and over all The awful Form that bowed Our hearts, — the fiery scourge that smote The city, — the red Mount ; clear, clear I saw it, — and this lonely boat, And us two drifting here. With one sharp cry I sprang and hid My face among the skins beside licr feet, and held her safe and chid The tumult till it died. A:id crouched thus at her rescued feet, Save her low breach, I heard alone The sleepless ocean's ceaseless beat, The surge's monotone. Chatham, Oct. 1881. / ^ TO lUifMKMiniY OF iiJI^EY LAMEh'. Sullenly fall.s (lie r.iin, * Still lianas the dripping leaf, And all I the ))ain I Tlio i^Iow dull ache of my f^ricf'! Tliat tlirohs — ." In vain ! In vain I Vou have garnered your sheaf." Von have garnered your sheaf with the tares Therein, and unripe wheat — All that death spares, Who has come with too swift feet, Not turning for any prayers, Nor all wivo entreat. They entreated with tears ; but I — Ah me I all I can say Is only a cry. I liad loved you many a day, i'et never had fate drawn nigh Wy way to your way. My spirit made swift with love Went forth to you in your place Far off and above ; Tliough we met not face to face, My older Brother, yet love Had i)lerced through space. '"C^iitnam, Oct. ISbl. — 4- A BALLAD OF CALYPSO. The loud black flight of the storm diverges (_)ver a spot in the loud-mouthed main"] Where, crowned with summer and sun, emerges An isle unbeaten of wind or rain. Here of its mystical mistress fain, JJy whose ki.«scs the whole broad earth seems poor. Tarries the wave-worn prince, Troy's bane, In the green Ogygian Isle secure. To her voice our sweetest songs arc dirges ; She gives liim all things, counting it gain ; Ringed with the rocks and and ancient surges, How could Fate dissever these twain I Hut him no luves nor delights retain ; New knowledge, new lands, now loves allure, — Forgotten the perils, and tears, and pain, ' In the green Ogygian Isle secure. / > 5 «So lie spurns her kixscs and jjil'tn, and iiri^'cs His wc'ik skill" over tlie wind-vext pliiiii, Till the f,'rcy ol" iho sky in the grey sea merges, And nights reel round, and waver, and wane. lie sits onee more in his own dnniain ; No more tlie remote sea-walls immure ; — IJut ah 1 i'or tlic love lie shall elasp nut aj^ain, In the green Ogygian Isle secure I Enroi rrinecH, and yc whose delights remain, To tlie one good gift of the gods hold sure, Jiest ye too mourn in vain, in vain, Vour green Ogygian Isle secure. IWNDEAU. To Louis llonorc Frechclle. Laurels for Song I and nobler bays, In old Olympian golden days or clamour through the ciear-eyod morn, No bowed triumphant head hatii borne, Victorious in all Hellas' gaze. They watched liis glowing axles graze The goal, tlicn rent the heaven with praise ; Still the suprcnier heads have worn - Jjaurels for song. So thee, from no palaestra-plays A con(jueror, to the gods we raise, Whose brows, of all our singers born, The sacred fillets chief adorn, — Who first of all our choir displays Laurels for song. Chatham, Xcv. 1881. BllO THElt CUTIlBEli T. Cuthbert, open ; let me in I (^ease your praying for a minute I Here the darkness seems to grin. Holds a thousand horrors in it; Down the stony corridor Footsteps pace the stony floor. Here they foot it, pacing slow, Monklike, one behind another : Don't you hear me '/ Don't you know I'm a little nervous. Brother '! Won't you speak ? Then by your leave Here's a guest for Christmas Kve. )^ Shrivn me. but I f];ot a frijilit ! Monks of coiiturics af.'o Wiinder back to Kce toiiij^bt How tbo old place looks: — Holloa! Tbirt tlie kind of watdi you keep — Cc^nift to pray — and po to slncp ! Slianic, man I Keep your vi},'il ! Wukc ! Double penance cise your b, ics Soon will pay with wrench and ache For your tempting couch of stones. Hard and cold your couch and cell, Urotlier, yet you slumber well I Ah, this mortal flesh is weak ! Who is saintly there's no saying. Here is tears upon his cheek ; And he sleeps, that .' I /; I'O Flii:i)KniCTON IN I/.l )• 77J/A'. Tli'm inornin;; full of brcczcH ami pcrfumo— lirinif'ul ol'iiroiniso of iiiitlsuuiiiicr wcutlior — When bccH, and birdu, und I aro glad tu{^cthor, ]kcatliofl fiP tlio full-lonvod c^n;- >u, when soft gloom Chcfj'iors thy streets, and thy close olnis assumo „ Kuund roof and Hjiiro the ooniblanco of green billows ; Yet now thy glory is the yellow willows — The yellow willows full of bees and bloom. Tinder their nicaly blossoms black-birds meet, And robini- pipe amid tlio cedars nighcr ; 'Jhrough the Htilj elms 1 hear the ferry's beat ; The swallows chirp about the towering spire ; The whole air pulses with its weight of sweet, Yet not quite suti^Hed is my desire. F'lon. May 24//i, 1881. \ u THE SLAVE WOMAN. Shedding cool drops upon the sun-baked clay, The dripping jar, brimfull, she rests a sp'tec On thti well's dry white brink, and ! ui !ior face, Heavy with tears and many a heartsick day, Down to the water's lip, whciK lips away A rivulet through the ho', bright square apaeo ; And lo I^ her brow hati ^ ist ear^'-^iervile trace — X J. ni ^sZiti a'ouui TncMliI ii.au-w.yij iiGi '•.ayii'..liu, imi. .j- Ah desolate one ! Thy fate thou hast forgot ' A moment j the dull pain hath left those eyes Whose yearning pierces time, and space, and tears : Thou scest what was once, but now is not, — liy Niger thy bright homo, thy Paradise, Un.scathed of flame, and foe, and hostile spears. June, 1881. ^■S ^ ,( «• (^ - ('■ ' ^U^::